Typicality, familiarity and the recognition of male and female faces.

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Subjects provided judgements of typicality, familiarity, and recognition for each of 209 photographs of male and female faces. The results support the notion that the same-sex bias in recognition often found with female but not male subjects is a function of perceived typicality: Female subjects rated female feces to be more typical than male faces, whereas male subjects showed no such bias: and the same pattern of results was found for false-positive responses on a test of item recognition. Although correlated with their typicality, the rated familiarity of the faces was not related to the subjects'' recognition judgements, suggesting that perceived context-free familiarity of faces is not the source of the effects of typicality or sex of face on the recognition of faces.

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